Sua Sponte Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimaLowdown Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Well, he lived life to the fullest. 🍻 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuggyU2 Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Too bad it is during the Covid ridiculousness. It will certainly impact the magnitude of the ceremonies and memorials to him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raimius Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 🍺 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuggyU2 Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Anyone care to wager how long it takes for a proposal to rename Beale to Yeager AFB to hit Congress? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJDRVR Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 7 hours ago, HuggyU2 said: Anyone care to wager how long it takes for a proposal to rename Beale to Yeager AFB to hit Congress? I vote we rename it Huggy AFB. 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 I say we wait 40-60years before renaming it that. Might be a little weird prior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPAWNmaster Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 13 hours ago, HuggyU2 said: Anyone care to wager how long it takes for a proposal to rename Beale to Yeager AFB to hit Congress? Not going to happen with his reputation as a racist. 🤷♂️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slackline Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 2 minutes ago, SPAWNmaster said: Not going to happen with his reputation as a racist. 🤷♂️ I wondered the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17D_guy Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 1 hour ago, SPAWNmaster said: Not going to happen with his reputation as a racist. 🤷♂️ Oh really? I didn't know that. While I was there he was not liked due to attitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearedHot Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 He was a complete raging asshole...but one hell of a pilot and an American hero. RIP 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SurelySerious Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 1 hour ago, SPAWNmaster said: Not going to happen with his reputation as a racist. 🤷♂️ Also thought he was just an ass to everyone, but roughly everything in West Virginia is already named for him anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronxbomber252 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 I vote we rename it Huggy AFB. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirkDiggler Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 15 hours ago, ClearedHot said: He was a complete raging asshole...but one hell of a pilot and an American hero. RIP Two My parents bought me The Right Stuff movie (on VHS, movie is so long it took TWO tapes) when I was a kid. I know now that some of the stuff in the film was only loosely based in fact but I loved that movie, watched it all the time. Yeager and the guys of his generation beat one of the greatest evils on earth, then repeatedly strapped themselves into untested machines and kept pushing that envelope. Asshole or not, cheers to a great American. 🥃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLEA Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 4 minutes ago, DirkDiggler said: Two My parents bought me The Right Stuff movie (on VHS, movie is so long it took TWO tapes) when I was a kid. I know now that some of the stuff in the film was only loosely based in fact but I loved that movie, watched it all the time. Yeager and the guys of his generation beat one of the greatest evils on earth, then repeatedly strapped themselves into untested machines and kept pushing that envelope. Asshole or not, cheers to a great American. 🥃 Still pretty bad when the reputation among your peers after your dead is "mixed reviews." I'm certainly gracious for his accomplishments but being a decent human being is a far more important threshold to meet in life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawnman Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 22 minutes ago, FLEA said: Still pretty bad when the reputation among your peers after your dead is "mixed reviews." I'm certainly gracious for his accomplishments but being a decent human being is a far more important threshold to meet in life. Sadly, our society doesn't put decent human beings into history books the way we do with assholes who have a major accomplishment. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuggyU2 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Beale was named after a Navy Lieutenant that died 10 years before the Wright Brothers historic flight. He even graduated from the precursor to Annapolis. I will be surprised if the Beale name sticks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M2 Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Beale was also a brigadier general in the California Militia. California Governor John Bigler commissioned him at that rank to give him additional authority to negotiate peace treaties between the Native Americans and the U.S. Army. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McJay Pilot Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 On 12/8/2020 at 1:07 AM, HuggyU2 said: Anyone care to wager how long it takes for a proposal to rename Beale to Yeager AFB to hit Congress? Already taken by the 130th AW. https://www.goang.com/locations/west-virginia/yeager-air-national-guard-base.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McJay Pilot Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 On 12/8/2020 at 4:17 PM, SurelySerious said: Also thought he was just an ass to everyone, but roughly everything in West Virginia is already named for him anyway. That or Sen Robert C. Byrd... similar rep as a human too... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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